Literature

In Prism and La Vernácula, the two magazines considered to be the voice of ULV, pictures of beauty and words of wisdom are captured in photographs, poems, short stories and art by members of the University community.

Offering the opportunity to participate in group readings, La Verne's Wilson Library has reinstituted a program called Library Fridays. Head librarian Dr. Marlin Heckman has organized this program, to be held every Friday from 3:30-4:30p.m.

A womanizing, overeating, uninformed southern governor runs for president on a platform of not being a politician and appealing to the “normal” folks. By a fluke, he does surprisingly well, overcoming nearly impossible odds and wins the Democratic primary.

February is Black History Month and the Afrikan-American Student Union (AASA), along with director, Nichole Mhoon, sophomore, organized a poetry reading on Monday, Feb. 12.

“The Black Woman Speaks: A Message to All” was presented on Tuesday night in the Cabaret Theatre. In the 15-minute program, seven female African-American students performed a medley of opinionated poetry along with senior psychology major and ethnic studies minor DiShawn Givens, who wrote the pieces.

Seventeen years ago, the Associated Student Forum published the first issue of Prism, the literary magazine of the University of La Verne. Prisms, as it was then called, contained typewritten pages of poetry and prose. Today the contents of Prism, now published by the English and foreign language departments, remain much the same. The editorial board, however, hopes to change not only the look but the reputation of the magazine.